Stanley Greene

Stanley Greene Jr. (February 14, 1949 – May 19, 2017) was an American photojournalist.

Life and career Greene was born to middle class parents in Brooklyn. Both his parents were actors. His father, Stanley Greene Sr., born in Harlem, was a union organizer, one of the first African Americans elected as an officer in the Screen Actors Guild,

Greene began his art career as a painter, but started taking photos as a means of cataloging material for his paintings. In 1971, when Greene was a member of the anti–Vietnam War movement and the Black Panther Party, his friend photographer W. Eugene Smith offered him space in his studio and encouraged him to study photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York and the San Francisco Art Institute.

Greene held various jobs as a photographer, including taking pictures of rock bands and working at Newsday.

In 2008, Greene revealed that he had hepatitis C, which he believed he had contracted from a contaminated razor while working in Chad in 2007. After controlling the disease with medication, he traveled to Afghanistan and photographed a story about "the crisis of drug abuse and infectious disease".

Stanley Greene co-founded NOOR Agency with fellow photojournalist Kadir van Lohuizen in 2007. They launched their agency with their colleagues on September 7, 2007, at Visa Pour L'Image. Greene died in Paris, at the age of 68. He had been undergoing treatment for liver cancer.